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Entries from March 2016

I thought I would bring you a galactic list of books to read, and we have tried to include something for absolutely everyone. Otherwise, it is the autumn break from school over here and the father person has surprised us with a few days off work… so here is a great post to keep you […]

To celebrate our Annual Build a Library Project, we are having a week of books on our blog. I have a lovely big post packed with books for you to read over the weekend, but some books are so good that they have to stand alone. Last year we reviewed the book Journey by Aaron […]

I am just interrupting our week of books to bring you the last in our French Cooking Series… I have to say that had I known I would have had a broken arm for the entire course that I probably wouldn’t have taken it and my kids wouldn’t have learnt half as much as they […]

In honour of our Building a Library Project… I promised a week of books and there are going to be lots of reviews of the latest and greatest reads to choose from between now and next week. The books in this post were all published by Penguin Random House South Africa and given to us […]

Today is Human Right’s Day in South Africa… a great reason to have a public holiday and celebrate how far South Africa has come since the arrival of our Bill of Rights in 1997, and yet a sobering reminder of how far we still have to go. In a country where the gap between the […]

It was a week of sunshine… and even a dot or two of rain, which is what everyone is hoping for to break the drought… Se7en’s Easter Round Up Lovely Links from This Week Ocean Hero Sylvia Earle Tells It Like It Is… Babyccino’s Orthodox Easter Eggs… superb!!! We are huge fans of children’s writer, […]

There are few things better than a fabulous collection of reference books, especially reference books for kids. When you look through a mountain of reference books you realise that some of them are clear winners and stand out above the rest, they are well designed, well illustrated and packed with intriguing factoids. Just like fiction […]